bycause they solde the holy vesseles of theyr churches, and with that money helped and releued the || E ij.|| nedy and poure people. Ogy. Thay be praysede also now in our tyme, but thay be praysed onely, to folow ther doynge (I suppose) thay may not, nor be any thynge dysposede. Me. I interrupte and lett yowr comunycatyon.  I loke now for the coclusyon of ye tale. Ogy. Gyffe audyence, I wyll make an ende shortly.  In the meane seson comyth forthe he that is the cheffe of them all. Me. Who is he? the abbot of the place? Ogy. He werythe a mytre, he may spend so moche as an abbot, he wated nothynge but ye name, and he is called prior for this cause tharchebyshope is take in the abbotes sted.  For in old tyme who so euer was archbyshope of ye dyocese, the same was also a monke. Me. In good faythe I wold be content to be namyde a Camelle, if I myght spende yerely the rentes and reuennes of an abbot. Ogy. Me semede he was a || man bothe vertuous and wyse, and not vnlearnede Duns diuinite.  He opened the shryne to vs in whiche ye holle body of the holy ma, thay say, dothe rest and remayne. Me. Dydste thou see hys bones. Ogy. That is not conuenient, nor we cowld not come to it, except we sett vp laders, but a shryne of wod couerede a shryne of gold, when that is drawne vp with cordes, tha apperith treasure and riches inestimable. Me. What do I here? the vilest part and worst was golde, all thynges dyd shyne, florishe, and as it were with lyghtnynge appered with precyouse stones and those many and of great multitude:  some were greater than a gowse egge.  Dyuerse of ye monks stode ther aboute with greate reuerence, the couer takyn a way, all we kneled downe and worshyped.  The pryor with a whyte rodde showed vs euery stone, addynge therto the || E iij.|| frenche name, the value, & the autor of the gyfte, for the cheffe stonys were sent thyther by great prynces. Me. He ought to be a man of an excedyng witt & memory. Ogy. You gesse well, how beit exercyse & vse helpeth moche, for euyn the same he dothe oftentymes.  He brought vs agayne in to the crowdes.  Our lady hathe ther an habitacyon, but somwhat darke, closed rownde aboute with double yren grats. Me. What feared she? Ogy. Nothinge I trow, except theues.  For I saw neuer any thing more laden with riches synse I was borne of my mother. Me. You show vnto me blinde ryches. Ogy. Whe they brought vs candells we saw a sight passynge ye ryches of any kynge. Me. Dothe it excede our lady of walsynga? Ogy. To loke vpo this, is richer, the secret tresure she knoweth her selfe, but this is not shewede, but to great || men, or to specyall frendes.  At the last we were brought agayne in to the reuettry, there was taken out a cofer couered with blacke lether, it was sett downe apon the table, it was sett open, by and by euery body kneled downe and worshipyd. Me. What was in it? Ogy. Certayne torne ragges